System Administrator Certification Training

System Administration Training with Placement

Course Content:

1. Intro. What is System Administration?

• History of System Administration. System Administration Roles.
• Basics of Windows NT/2000/2003 and Unix/Linux. History.
• System Administration Topics
• (Most of the following topics will be first covered, using windows NT/2000/2003 and then using Unix/Linux)

2. Basic Info and Account Management. File and directory layout. File
Systems (NTFS, FAT, UFS). File permissions. ACL.

3. Installing the Operating System.

4. Basic DOS/Windows/Unix commands and tools. Command Line vs. Gui.

• Start up (booting) and Shutdown. Task Manager. More Account Management.

5. System Processes. Scheduling jobs (scheduler/cron), job monitoring.
(Event viewer/ps), start and stop jobs. At command vs. Scheduled Tasks
Gui tool. More Task Manager.

6. Disk administration. File systems/partitions. Disk DeFragmentation.
RAID. Basic client/server file sharing.

7. Files, Directories and Memory Management. Permissions.

8. Networking. TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Domains/NIS. File Sharing.

• Client/Server. NFS. NetBeui. PDC/BDC. Active Directory.
• Setting up a file server (and client/server network).
• Ethernet Addresses, Hostnames.

9. Automating System Admin Tasks. Scripts. Regedit.
(Shell, perl C)

10. Performance Monitoring and Optimization.

11. Misc. and Advanced Topics. Other Control Panel and Admin Tools items.
Computer Management GUI tool. Windows Update.

12. Security and Backups. Patches, passwords, kerberos, enigma...

• Tools (tcpwrappers and others). Backup methods.

13. Other Advanced Topics (depending upon time)

• Printing
• Installing/upgrading hardware/software/O.S.
• Email server, web server, dns/dhcp server, and telnet/ftp/ssh
• Unix-windows interoperability (samba)
• User communications and documentation
• Problems resolution and solutions
• Raid, san, nas